Oscar Ratings Excuse. Trade Roughage 09/16/08

By Christopher Campbell posted 2 months ago

Here’s another reason for the Academy to heavily nominate The Dark Knight: it may just be the incentive potential viewers need to make sure to convert their TVs to digitial in time for the Oscar telecast, which airs only five days after the big signal switch occurs. At least there’s already a good excuse in place, though, in case the show’s ratings are a disappointment.
The effects of Black Monday included media company stock plunges, but there doesn’t seem to be too much worrying at U.S. movie studios. The Indian film industry, however, appears to be feeling a major crunch.
Ben Affleck has found his directorial follow-up to Gone Baby Gone in an adaptation of Chuck Hogan’s crime novel “The Prince of Thieves.” Affleck will rewrite and also star in the film, retitled The Town. Hopefully he’ll also find room to cast his brother and Donnie Wahlberg, who narrated the “Prince” audio book. Also: Cheech Marin has finally found his directorial follow-up to Born in East L.A.
No longer to be pegged as simply a rom-com star, Katherine Heigl enters the next phase of her career by signing on for an action-comedy (with some rom-com elements, however) titled Drawn Together.

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